LECTURES: A Series of Engaging Lectures on Novel Material at Kolarac The Institute of Physics and the Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment are organizing a lecture series on novel materials in the period between 25 March and 22 April 2025. Titled ‘The Age of New Materials’, the new lecture series is held…
FROM THE MEDIA: Politika Daily on Remembering Dr Dragan Popović Politika Daily published a piece titled ‘A Man Who Loved Physics’ on Sunday, 23 March 2025, on the occasion of the unveiling of the bust of Dr Dragan Popović. Politika wrote about the scientific contributions of Dr Dragan Popović and his impact…
MEMORIES: Memorial Event in Honour of Dr Dragan Popović On Friday, 21 March, colleagues, friends, and family of Dr Dragan Popović (1949-2015) gathered in the Hall bearing his name at the Institute of Physics Belgrade. He was a physicist who, during his career, made a profound and lasting contribution…
FROM THE MEDIA: Dr Dakić and the Marko Jarić Prize This year’s Marko Jarić Prize award ceremony once again attracted significant media attention. Often referred to as “The Serbian Nobel for Physics,” the prestigious award was presented to Dr Borivoje Dakić, Associate Professor at the University of Vienna, ‘for groundbreaking…
VISITS: Students at the Institute, Coinciding with the APS Global Physics Summit On Wednesday, 19 March 2025, students from Serbia, along with researchers from three institutions focused on physics, participated in the Global Satellite Session – Serbia: Novel Topics in Quantum Science and Technology. This event was held as part of one of…
AWARDS: Dr Borivoje Dakić Honored with the Marko Jarić Prize The Prof. Dr Marko V. Jarić Foundation has awarded the prestigious Marko Jarić Prize for 2024 to Dr Borivoje Dakić, an associate professor at the University of Vienna in Austria. The traditional awarding ceremony will be held on Monday, 17 March 2024,…
GUESTS: Opening the Door to Physics – A Student Visit to the Institute In addition to its research and work with university students, as well as initiatives aimed at secondary school students, the Institute of Physics Belgrade welcomes primary school students. An eighth-grade student of the French School in Belgrade, Maxim Smith, spent…
VISITS: Kindergarten Explorers – A Physics Class at the Institute On Wednesday, February 26, the Institute of Physics Belgrade welcomed its youngest visitors, kindergarteners from the Vesela Planeta preschool in Žarkovo. Researchers designed a special program tailored to their age, thus effectively making it their first physics class. The Institute’s…
A CLOSER LOOK: A Life of a Physicist at the Institute What does research at the Institute of Physics look like? Researchers at the Institute conduct research in 25 laboratories equipped with competitive research infrastructure in various fields of modern physics including new materials studies and alternative theories of gravity. Approximately…
PROJECTS: Dr Antonietta Ferrara and Steven Tossyn on Physics and Comics The ARTEMIS European project in which the Institute’s researchers led by Dr Branko Kolarić participate, dedicated to quantum mechanics, launched cooperation with comic book artists as well. On this occasion, Dr Antonietta Ferrara of the National Research Council (CNR), coordinator…
